Arvid Heise
Staff Software Engineer II at The Apache Software Foundation
Michendorf, Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolArvid Heise is a Staff Software Engineer II based in Michendorf, Germany, with 11 years of experience building high-performance, scalable data processing systems. He has driven core improvements in Apache Flink—reducing synchronization, removing threads, and hardening timeout handling—while contributing documentation and website updates that keep the ecosystem current. At Snowflake and Ververica he led efforts to productionize dynamic tables, unaligned checkpointing, and new connector interfaces, routinely translating research-grade ideas into robust, low-latency implementations. His background spans academic research (Hasso Plattner Institute, PhD-level work on Stratosphere/Flink) to enterprise delivery for customers like Bayer and Flixbus, giving him uncommon depth across algorithms, systems design, and operational engineering. Known for simplifying threading models and optimizing runtime paths, he excels at making complex distributed systems both faster and easier to evolve.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), IT Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), IT Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
German, English
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Github Skills (23)
apache-flink10
flink-sql10
java10
javas10
manage10
html10
gatsbyjs10
management10
documentation10
concurrency10
website-admin10
testing9
big-data9
css7
apache-kafka6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/flink
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
Apache Flink
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1062 reviews, 462 commits, 480 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Arvid contributed to Apache Flink by implementing and testing timeout handling and performance optimizations, particularly within the datastream and runtime components. The work included adding tests for proper timeout handling in the datastream API as well as removing EmitterThread and reducing synchronization in the AsyncWaitOperator for runtime processing. The user also refactored parts of the code base by moving specifications, removing code, and refactoring various classes.
apache-flinkscalajavabig-dataflink
apache/flink-web
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Apache Flink Website
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 reviews, 12 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Arvid primarily contributed to the Apache Flink website by generating and rebuilding web pages, likely for blog posts and documentation updates. These changes included adding content for releases like the Pulsar Flink Connector 2.7.0, 1.12.3, and 1.12.4, alongside updates to the downloads and blog sections. This also involved correcting missing pages and ensuring the website's content reflected the latest software releases.
apache-flinkscalajavabig-dataflink
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